Food insecurity, famine and malnutrition have blighted the agropastoralist communities of the Lower Omo River Valley in southwestern Ethiopia. A government source blames a long-term drought for ...

Alawara Kolbala, 39, from the Mursi tribe, said he remembers the sense of pride and hope his community felt when they ...

Foreigners began trickling into the Omo River Valley just prior to the 1936–1941 Italian occupation, after historian Carlo Conti Rossini described Ethiopia as a “Museum of Peoples,” a still ...

Many of the indigenous people that inhabit the valley are agro-pastoralist, growing crops along the Omo River and grazing cattle. In 2010, Ethiopia announced plans for the construction of Africa's ...

Ethiopia may be known for its rich and varied mix of ethnicities, but the diversity in the lower Omo River Valley in the southwest of the country, home to more than 200,000 people, is unparalleled.

(Nairobi) – The Ethiopian government is forcibly displacing indigenous pastoral communities in Ethiopia’s Lower Omo valley without adequate consultation or compensation to make way for state ...

When I visited the Omo Valley in southern Ethiopia almost two decades ago ... the government built a huge hydroelectric dam on the Omo River, opening this year. It will divert the water upon ...

Somali model Fatima Siad calls New York City home these days, but this winter, eager to reconnect with her East African roots, she took a trip to Ethiopia’s Omo River Valley—one of the last ...